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FRIDAY NIGHT SHORTS PROGRAM 2017

FRIDAY NIGHT SHORTS PROGRAM 2017

Friday, October 13; 9:15pm
*some content is for mature audiences

Expected Guests:
Director, Ryan White & Director of Photography, Alex Clausen (Cruising Elsewhere), Director, hazart (Haygood Eats)

Cake
Director: Jacintho Muinos
2015 | Australia | 16 min

A late-night Internet hook-up between a housebound gamer and a relentless party boy runs overtime. But the morning arrival of Andrew’s grandma turns things a bit awkward in this charming Aussie romance.

Cruising Elsewhere
Director: Ryan White
2016 | USA | 13 min

Whatever happened to Wohler Beach? Oral histories and spectral pornography resurrect memories of a once legendary Russian River gay beach in this sexy short.

Tits.
Director: Louisa Bertman
2015 | USA | 5 min

Quite simply, this is a powerful animated short about tits.

Queer Ghost Hunters: Part 1
Director: Stu Maddux
2017 USA 10 min

In this first episode of director Stu Maddox’s Queer Ghost Hunters, join the team on the hunt for lesbian nun ghosts!

Haygood Eats
Director: hazart
2016 | USA | 5 min

A bickering husband-and-wife catering team (or is it husband-and-beard?) is shooting a cheesy TV ad, and we get to see the hilarious outtakes.

Rusalka
Directors: Wes “Potato” Hurley & Nathan Miller
2016 | USA | 9 min

Imagine Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Mermaid” retold by Tom of Finland, and throw in an homage to early gay erotic films, and you get the artful Rusalka, set to the music of Antonín Dvořák’s opera of the same name and starring burlesque icons Luminous Pariah and Chris Harder.

The Blondes (Las rubias)
Director: Carlota Martínez Pereda
2016 | Spain | 17 min

Blonde, pretty. and delinquent: nothing stands in the way of Marta and Pepa…except another blonde. Inspired by real events and the style of Almodóvar. In Spanish with English subtitles

Curmudgeons
Director: Danny DeVito
2016 | USA | 17 min

A potty-mouthed octogenarian in an assisted living facility gets a big-time surprise engineered by his daughter, in this funny and endearing sketch directed (and with a delightful cameo) by Danny DeVito.